Background

• Research Associate in Applied Aerodynamics.

Outline of main research interests 

Implementation of a sub grid scale thermodynamic model to account for the effects of small scale features such as pedestals and effusion cooling holes without resolving them in the computational mesh.

• Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Computational modelling of aerodynamics of gas turbine combustion systems.

Research group:

• Applied Aerodynamics

Selected research projects

Computational and experimental modelling of a highly swirling flow (PhD thesis).  Computational modelling of the flow downstream of a three stream swirler, representative of those used in the fuel injection system of a gas turbine engine.  The flow was modelled in a steady state mode, using both k-epsilon and Reynolds stress turbulence models.  A physical model was manufactured from perspex and the exact flow was measured using a three dimensional LDA (Laser Doppler anemometry) system.

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